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Re: Approved Oil?
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 1/13/2005

Kansas,

Traditionally a synthetic is a group IV base stock PAO or Esther oil.

Unfortunately a federaL federal trade comission judgement allows group II base stock oil, etc to be advertised as synthetic. The term is now pretty meaningless.

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